We are a first grade class from North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Illinois. We are located about 20 miles North of Chicago in a suburban community. We are interested in collaborating with other schools with children ages 5-8 in the U.S. and around the world to learn more about how other people live. We have created a blog in which we will share our stories and post questions. We invite you to share about your communities, cultures, celebrations, weather, interests, etc.

Post Ideas

Jan 21st- Poems about the students.

February 11th- The children will draw pictures of and write a little about places in our community.


Please feel free to add any post ideas.

We hope you will visit our blog and we are looking forward to building a friendship with you!

Tutorials on how to join our blog, how to write a post, and add a picture can be found on our tutorials page.. Our blog can be found at nsfirstgrade.edublogs.org.

So far these are the current participants in our project:

North Shore Country Day School - 1st Grade Class- Winnetka, IL - Hillary Wirtz and Kyle Jones - hwirtz@nscds.org, kjones@nscds.org
North Fairview Elementary School-Topeka, KS
Rochester Elementary School - Topeka, KS
HES- Hermon, Maine